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The the book was in beautiful shape

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 26, 2022

Soft to the touch Great cover on it my daughter really enjoyed it I would definitely order from the seller again. My daughter loves to collect books and it was a great book to add to her collection worth the money great size I loved the feel of it it was hard cover but it had like a soft texture. My daughters 10 turning 11 but all she reads his novels she started reading novels when she was six

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LLAP

Well written but first chapter troublesome

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 25, 2022

I found the story interesting somewhat repetitive of classics but kept me reading. However the first chapter I found very Erie and too much for the
Minimum age recommendation. Chapter 2 clears everything up but still a child reading
the first chapter may have nightmares.

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Laurie

Doesn’t Get Better

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2019

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By the summary and the fact that this won a Newbery Medal, I was really excited to read this book. The tone was often gloomy and hopeless. There are many themes on emotions, traditional and nontraditional family relationships, and sanctity of life, and I can agree with most of those themes. However, this took me months to read because nothing really happens until the end. I started months back and read 63% of the book until I couldn’t stand the whining, spoilt nature of Luna anymore. I couldn’t stand the resigned and guilty conscious of the grandmother. I couldn’t stand the madness of the mother. If she is such a strong woman who can fight even as a mad woman, why must she be so weak mentally to be broken? I am annoyed by Fyrians childishness and everybody’s deception towards him. Just tell him he is a small dragon, please. Glerk, who I guess I related to the most because he is annoyed by them all, is even annoying because he just does what the grandmother witch tells him to do. However, he is a symbol for Christ or an ever-present god in the final chapters, so why doesn’t he do more guiding than sitting passively by. Am I to gather that a message in the text is that God is present today, but he is sitting passively by because he doesn’t realize that he is needed and is hiding from the world? The language towards the end alludes heavily towards Christian scripture: “In the beginning, there was the Bog. And the Bog covered the world and the Bog was the world and the world was the Bog.” John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This is just one example of how heavily spiritual the text turned in the final chapters, which I guess if I would have thought about how philosophical the text tried to be, I might have guessed that it was meant to be so all along. However, the doom that was being built up since the beginning was quickly written in a few paragraphs and essentially skipped (it was mentioned, but then the author skipped to what happened afterwards) in order to begin this spiritual revelation. Perhaps the doom was the sign of a second coming because everything was “transformed” (some physically and others emotionally) except for those who would not ask forgiveness. Whatever the point, I usually like books that promote such thinking, but I hated how all this was done throughout this text because it was not evenly built across the text. There was so much repetition: repetition of phrases, repetition of thoughts. I teach my students to notice those things because it is usually significant, but all I could see is a bunch of people with circular thinking, so they were like broken records. Annoyed was my mood even after taking a break after many, many months because all the things before that irritated me throughout the text continued all the way to the end. There is one other book that I have read that I can think of that I reacted similarly to, and my teacher asked me, “Why did you keep reading it?” Well, my answer is still the same: “I hoped it would get better.” But it did not, and this one does not.

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renee and mikes

Sacrificing babies? Cross dressing men? What did I just read?!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2023

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Oof. What did I just read??
I wanted a fun book my daughter (10) and I could read together and bond over. So I bought two copies. We began reading this evening, one room a part. The first couple pages talking about the witch who takes children and the parents who gladly sacrifices them. Ummm?
Then goes on to talk about a man putting blush and eyeliner on before the said sacrifice. Umm.
From there they talk about men prying a baby from a helpless mother who is yelling and spitting with anger- trying to keep her child. Talking of ripping their eyes out if they take her. How unsettling! I ran into my daughters room and said, you can stop now- she said, “mom, this is weird.” I know darling, I’m SO sorry. How did this book get so many good reviews?!

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Tries too hard

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2017

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I know im going to be in the minority here, but I actually despised this book. I wanted to enjoy this book, seeing as it was listed as one of the book that i was required to read in the eighth grade. Unfortunately though, it seems as though this author has lost sight as to what makes a good story so great. The author of this story seems to have a mental checklist of how to pander towards critics and parents, the people that only seem to really matter when selling a book. There are too many characters that do not make much of a lasting impact on the story, and will most definitely be forgotten once a reader finally gets through this train wreck. This book does its best to cater towards parents, which makes the young adult readers, which this book is marketed toward, very bored and even angry with the story. The author is trying to convey a sense of enchantment and poetic emotion when she writes her story, but it only seems to serve as a way to get across a painfully obvious message in a more tolerable way, which obviously doesn't work out well. Magic is instead treated as something that every character has, and soon losses its initial charm when you find out that more than half of the characters contain it.It is a shame though, because the author is a talented writer and will most likely turn out better products than this unfortunate mess. It is a perfect example of a book pandering to to the critics, rather than the young readers.

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Anonymous

Slow..........

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2021

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I rarely take the time to write reviews. And I hate to write a bad review for a book, but this book was slow and overwritten. The plot and ideas in the book were creative, and in the hands of a different author and editor, could laid the basis for a beautiful and timeless story. I read this book to my kids and we all suffered, hoping that it would get better. In the last third of the book, I was skipping sentences as the author has a tendency to write the same sentence over and over and over again. This is not a Newbery Medal deserving book.

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Mrs. C

No, just no.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2019

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I picked up this book because it won the Newberry Award...an award for children up to 14. I might maybe possibly recommend it to a 12-14 year old but it would have to be a pretty sophisticated reader. The book is long, really long. The storytelling alternates between the rhythm and pace of an elementary level book and that of a high school dystopian. The characters lack depth in spite of the fact that the bog monster, Gleck, recites poetry. It is chaotic and, in the end, I could not work up any positive feeling for anyone or anything that occurred. It strikes me as a book that wants to be a young adult book written by an author who wants to write meaningful books for children. Even though there are occasional lines delivered by the characters that are quite nice, the language sputters.

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Catherine B.

Terrible!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2022

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I am thoroughly disappointed in this book! The plot is very confusing. The characters are shallow. Some of the topics are not appropriate for middle grade readers. For example, one of the characters needs to eat sorrow in order to feel her magic. It is all over the place with no real depth to it. It fact, it seems written by an amateur and really does not deserve a Newbury. Would not recommend!

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vian salih

Not intresting, too complicated

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2020

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Started reading this boo with my daughter, she is 8 years old, she is a very good reader, I'm her Mom and a reader as a hobby, but this book is not what catches our eyes, its so ambiguous and so difficult to connect, you have to read several pages of words that describes only one thing and you cant understand wherw its going. We love mystery stories but this one is just boring, I dont know who gave it all these prizes.... wasted my money...

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Kiki

Damaged

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 11, 2021

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Very disappointed gave my mum the box as a gift today for her to read during lockdown to be called and said when unwrapped the front cover is damaged my mum was very sad as she was so looking forward to receiving this today

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Tabitha

Meh....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 24, 2017

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I really wanted to like this book. A coming of age story with a strong female lead and strong, smart female support?! Sounds like me all over! But, I gotta say, while this book was extremely readable, it was kinda boring. The characters are reasonably well developed, but I hoped her "side kicks" would end up more substantial. And the crow? Why? She already had two very likable, faithful, helpful friends, who spoke in the same language as her.

I did want to finish it. But that was only because I wanted to see if it got better. It did. But not good enough. Won't be recommending to my children.

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Deb S

Disappointed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2021

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Item wasn't in acceptable condition, but it was a gift so I gave it anyway! It's the story that counts! The book cover was stained like grease on the back, and corners were so dinged it was not good condition at all!

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